10 August 2011

The creators of the service — a sex educator and a public health doctor — realized that online encounters were leading to casual sex hookups which were, in turn, fuelling syphilis cases. So they created the email notification system.

Hey... maybe Facebook can come up with a special "poke" to cover this one as well. Whaddaya think that emoticon would look like?

Interesting. Had the Alberta teen killed her mother, neither her name nor her mother's could have been released to protect said teen's privacy. But because she has possibly infected a couple of overly-horny and seriously indiscriminate young men, she's outed.